Showa TeeVees (at Lake Biwa museum
Turn off yer TeeVee (put it in a museum and listen to the rain) Amongst fossilized freshwater fish, recreations of […]
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Lake Biwa, Shiga-ken: Museum Dispatch
A last minute entry to Lake Biwa Museum with a cornucopia from: Plus overhead freshwater fish environments; to reconstructed elephant
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Field Notes: Hokusai & Hiroshige – woodblock masters exhibit in Okayama
July 7th, 2024 – contemporaneous annotations follow: Make a start: Because I’m a hermit, this kind of slipped past my
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Museum: South Australia Maritime / Adelaide, 2015
*Adelaide Epiphany at South Australia Maritime Museum* While I’m tempted to dive into a whole soliloquy about my time in
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Field Notes, Libraries / Museums / Archives
Field Notes: Vegas Neon Museum /boneyard
For reasons which no longer seem important, during the “wander and wonder “a.k.a. “lost and found” years during the later
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Healing Ramble, Personal Musings
Diary: seitai, bento, buses & snaps
For starters: Usual routine, photo evidence, heading for treatment by bus (with my fare card) every fibre in my adorable
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Notes to Future Self
August schemes & dreams
August schemes and/or dreams… Plotting it all out to keep the kid amused and my pacing, paced yes some may
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Japan Life/Travel, Post'd (cards + letters)
Item by Poste: photo zines from Art Island Naoshima
Photo book and photo zine by Andrew McCormick (@a.d.mccormick IG, @a_d_mccormick Tw) curator/wrangler of Art Island Center (@artislandcenter IG) on nearby Naoshima – one
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Exhibit: Shimizu Hian Shodo Calligraphy in Ukan, Okayama, 2021
In April 2021, we visited a shodo calligraphy exhibition at a saké distillery with special floral arrangements made by Ryoko’s
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Post'd (cards + letters)
Post’d: tiny exhibit, on a string in Shelter Cove (& a stainless steel fridge)
Dear friends in Coquitlam, British Columbia are amassing *quite a collection* of my/our dispatches over the recent months and years.
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Museum / Exhibit: Rodin Wing of Shizuoka Pref MoA / Japan, 2017
Along a travel by ship from California to Hong Kong, came a few stops in Japan including Shizuoka which led
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Museum: Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, 2019 (a sampler)
Blurb: On our extended skinkonryoko/honeymoon ramble, we had a stop in the city of Toyama (capital of eponymous prefecture) which
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Museum / Exhibit: Miwaki Ruins Jomon-era / Noto, Japan, 2019
As such, while visiting with Hongo-sensei on Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa-ken, amongst the other activities including a fishing/ whaling/Marine Museum,
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Field Notes, Japan Life/Travel, Libraries / Museums / Archives
Scenic / Historical Waystation: Oyashirazu Road / Niigata, Japan, 2019 (Geosite and Community Road feat. Rev. Weston)
And, along the way, made a top at a remarkable “scenic waystation” in Niigate-ken which commemorated a unique piece of
Museum Exhibit: D. T. Suzuki Zen / Kanazawa, Japan, 2019
As such, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa-ken (a city filled with exceptional museums – by my standards, especially small, specialized, and a little
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Field Notes, Japan Life/Travel, Libraries / Museums / Archives
Museum / Exhibit: Hokusai, print master / Nagano, Japan, 2019 (w/ minor notes)
Primary aims were to visit friends, stay at all manner of accommodations and see loads of museums, especially, spontaneous, small-ish
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